A single winner in Florida has beaten incredible odds and will take home the entire $590.5 million Powerball jackpot. The lucky ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., outside of Tampa, according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O’Connell. “This would be the sixth Florida Powerball winner and right now, it’s the sole winner of the largest ever Powerball jackpot,” O’Connell told the Associated Press. “We’re delighted right   Read More ...

Two FBI agents have been killed in a training accident in Virginia, officials said Sunday. The accident, which occurred Friday, involved members of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, AP reported. The victims were identified as Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40. No details on how it happened were disclosed, but an FBI spokeswoman in the Norfolk area said the deaths did not involve gunfire, the Washington Post reported. Other   Read More ...

George Michael remained hospitalized on Friday, one day after he was injured during a car crash in England. The 49-year-old former star of Wham! was the only person injured when the Range Rover he was traveling in collided with another vehicle. Paramedics airlifted Michael to hospital with head injuries, but his representatives said he was recovering quickly, Sky News said. “George Michael was a passenger in a vehicle involved in   Read More ...

Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina’s military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was judged and condemned to life-prison for crimes against humanity. In 2010 Videla was sentenced [es] to life in   Read More ...

At least 60 people were injured when two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during the Friday rush hour. Shortly after 6 p.m., an eastbound Metro-North train derailed and hit a westbound train near Fairfield, throwing passengers around and shutting down service between Boston and New York City. At least 60 people were injured, though none of the injuries were life-threatening, Gov. Danel Malloy said in a   Read More ...

Belize’s deputy prime minister wants those responsible for destroying a Mayan temple during a road project prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.” Gaspar Vega, who also represents the area where the Nohmul pyramid was destroyed last week, called for the punishments in a a statement today obtained by CNN. Belize’s Institute of Archaeology also promised an investigation and said it planned to take those responsible to court. “This Maya   Read More ...

Angelina Jolie has revealed that she recently underwent a preventative double mastectomy. The actress, whose mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer in 2007, was tested to see whether she carried the ‘faulty’ gene that increases a woman’s risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. “My doctors estimated that I had an 87 per cent risk of breast cancer and a 50 per cent risk of ovarian cancer, although the   Read More ...

Reporters and photographers were evacuated from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from a faulty piece of equipment. The White HouseThe White House (Uyen Le, Getty Images) U.S. Secret Service spokesman Max Milien says that at about 7 a.m., smoke was seen coming out of a mechanical room closet on the first floor. Journalists and others were evacuated out of — quote “an abundance   Read More ...

President Barack Obama will visit Berlin next month where he will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel. A German government spokesman made the announcement Friday, saying the country was looking forward to Obama’s first official trip to Berlin since he took office, Reuters reported. “The chancellor is very much looking forward to this visit and the talks with the president and his delegation on a very broad spectrum of bilateral and   Read More ...

NASA has scheduled an emergency space walk to find and fix the source of an ammonia leak at the International Space Station, a quickly-planned interstellar rescue mission that is being broadcast live right now. The spacewalk was scheduled after ISS crew noticed ammonia drifting away from the station, a coolant that’s used to lower the temperature of power systems on the technologically intricate craft. It may sound dire, but NASA   Read More ...